:00:00. > :00:11.This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas.
:00:12. > :00:15.Wherever you are in the world, resistance to antibiotics now poses
:00:16. > :00:17.a major threat to public health. That's the stark warning from the
:00:18. > :00:22.World Health Organisation which says the implications of this growing
:00:23. > :00:24.resistance are devastating. Iraq is voting in its first
:00:25. > :00:28.parliamentary election since American troops departed - but it's
:00:29. > :00:30.taking place with half a million people displaced by the fighting,
:00:31. > :00:35.and some areas beyond the government's control.
:00:36. > :00:39.Also coming up... After a prison execution by lethal execution in the
:00:40. > :00:42.US goes wrong the state of Oklahoma is to review how it carries out the
:00:43. > :00:45.death penalty. From the gangster grit of Mona Lisa
:00:46. > :00:49.to the cartoon caper Who Framed Roger Rabbit - we'll be remembering
:00:50. > :00:50.Bob Hoskins one of one of Britain's best loved actors who's died aged
:00:51. > :01:26.71. Hello and welcome. We start with a
:01:27. > :01:29.warning from the World Health Organisation that drug-resistant
:01:30. > :01:32.superbugs now pose a major global threat to our health. The WHO's new
:01:33. > :01:35.report warns of "devastating" implications unless "significant"
:01:36. > :01:38.action is urgently taken. Its study describes a 'post-antibiotic era' in
:01:39. > :01:41.which people could die from simple infections that have been treatable
:01:42. > :01:47.for decades. The WHO analysed information from 114 countries. It
:01:48. > :01:51.found that antibiotic resistance is happening now "in every region of
:01:52. > :01:53.the world". It focused on seven bacteria responsible for common
:01:54. > :02:05.serious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and blood infections. And
:02:06. > :02:08.it suggested that two key antibiotics are no longer working as
:02:09. > :02:15.they should. Here's our Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar.
:02:16. > :02:19.Warnings in recent years about people around the world becoming
:02:20. > :02:24.resistant to antibiotics used to save hundreds of millions of lives.
:02:25. > :02:28.This is the first major global report saying it is already
:02:29. > :02:36.happening in many parts of the world. It concentrated on seven
:02:37. > :02:41.different bacteria responsible for things like pneumonia and blood
:02:42. > :02:46.infections. Reports suggest that two key antibiotics no longer work for
:02:47. > :02:51.half of the patients in several countries. This is a last resort
:02:52. > :02:57.drug used to treat people with life-threatening infections. In
:02:58. > :03:04.patients tested in Greece, more than 60% were resistant. In the UK there
:03:05. > :03:09.was a more rate of resistance, less than 1%. This is a global problem
:03:10. > :03:15.with people travelling around the world and passing on resistant forms
:03:16. > :03:23.of bacteria. The WHO says the world is headed for a post antibiotic
:03:24. > :03:30.error if action is not taking and the struct -- these diseases may
:03:31. > :03:32.once again killed. It is estimated 20,000 people die from
:03:33. > :03:39.drug-resistant infections every year in Europe alone. Joining me from the
:03:40. > :03:48.World Health Organisation's headquarters in Geneva is Dr Carmen
:03:49. > :03:56.Pessoa. She heads the anti-microbial resistance programme. It is not a
:03:57. > :04:02.new story that bacteria is becoming resistant, we have had the warning
:04:03. > :04:12.before but what is changing now? This report shows that for the first
:04:13. > :04:15.time in a comprehensive way, high levels of resistance has been
:04:16. > :04:22.identified in all parts of the world. Whenever it has been booked
:04:23. > :04:31.for, it has identified this high level. -- looked for. It is no more
:04:32. > :04:42.for the future order speculation, it is a fact. The resistance to last
:04:43. > :04:47.resort drug has been identified. Our some regions more susceptible than
:04:48. > :05:00.others, perhaps the more developed countries? This is an issue which
:05:01. > :05:07.concerns all countries. It is not a problem that is isolated to a single
:05:08. > :05:14.country. It concerns and has been identified in most parts of the
:05:15. > :05:20.world. It is an issue that requires action by all countries and in a
:05:21. > :05:25.concerted way. It is an issue that the entire planet has two face and
:05:26. > :05:33.address. What kind of actions matter most now? The good news about this
:05:34. > :05:41.is that the solutions are in our hands. Actions should be taken by
:05:42. > :05:49.all of us because we are all part of the solutions as well as the
:05:50. > :05:54.problem. It is about people using intime microbiology in a more
:05:55. > :05:59.sensible way. Patients should only take these drugs when needed and
:06:00. > :06:05.when prescribed by health care workers. It is about doctors
:06:06. > :06:14.prescribing only when needed. And also, applying infection prevention
:06:15. > :06:21.and control to avoid the further spread of these pathogens. It is
:06:22. > :06:27.also about policy makers in governments providing support to
:06:28. > :06:34.health care facilities to improve control conditions in hospitals as
:06:35. > :06:38.well as improving policies to support the development and
:06:39. > :06:47.production of new antibiotics. We all need to take action. Thank you
:06:48. > :06:50.very much for being with us. Iraq is holding its first
:06:51. > :06:53.parliamentary elections since the US pulled its troops out of the country
:06:54. > :06:56.three years ago. The vote is being held after some of the worst
:06:57. > :06:59.violence and unrest since 2008. There is heavy security at polling
:07:00. > :07:03.stations and in some areas outside government control, voting is simply
:07:04. > :07:06.not possible. But for those who can make a choice, the key decision is
:07:07. > :07:09.whether to give Prime Minister, Nouri-al-Maliki a third term in
:07:10. > :07:20.office. Quentin Sommerville reports from Baghdad.
:07:21. > :07:27.Politics in Iraq can be a matter of life and death. At this election
:07:28. > :07:38.rally last week, first one explosion and then watch the white van on the
:07:39. > :07:44.right. 33 were killed here. Militants targeting the Shi'ite
:07:45. > :07:52.coat. A grisly start to elections. -- Shi'ite crowd. West of Baghdad,
:07:53. > :07:56.we headed to the border under armed escort. This is the road to
:07:57. > :08:05.Fallujah, the city has fallen to Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents. Iraqi
:08:06. > :08:12.government control ends. This is as far as we can go. We are told it is
:08:13. > :08:17.not safe. This means large part of the province cannot vote which will
:08:18. > :08:23.further marginalise this in a community. Politics has been about
:08:24. > :08:27.exploiting sectarian division. The failures this election could make
:08:28. > :08:34.matters worse. The army is being outmatched by the insurgents so in
:08:35. > :08:38.an existence largely unseen nearly half a million have fled their
:08:39. > :08:44.homes. Few are willing to talk for a few of reprisals. But these women
:08:45. > :08:51.wanted their stories told. Their homes have become a battle ground.
:08:52. > :08:55.This woman told us the Fallujah how my day had been cursed by God. She
:08:56. > :09:06.said the government needed to help others. -- to help them. The Prime
:09:07. > :09:13.Minister is hoping for a third term. He is Shi'ite and foreign cine
:09:14. > :09:18.involvement in the rising violence. His main rivals says the world has
:09:19. > :09:25.forgotten Iraq. The shame is not just what is happening in Iraq, the
:09:26. > :09:31.shame is this is happening under the very eyes of the international
:09:32. > :09:37.community. We see a country which is systematically being destroyed. The
:09:38. > :09:40.Sunni militia are fighting alongside the Americans and helped turn the
:09:41. > :09:53.tide against Al-Qaeda during the war. This man kept fighting. The
:09:54. > :10:01.militants since it never venture. He told me, they killed my wife and the
:10:02. > :10:06.beheaded my son. The Americans back -- abandoned as but it is the
:10:07. > :10:14.government I blame, they gave us no support. How can I go on without my
:10:15. > :10:21.family. As the polls close this evening, Iraq stands as a rare
:10:22. > :10:24.saying, democracy in the Middle East but it is country in crisis and the
:10:25. > :10:31.sport might not be enough to deliver it from the brink. -- and this
:10:32. > :10:35.vault. To Nigeria now where demonstrators
:10:36. > :10:41.have been marching through the capital. More than 230 girls were
:10:42. > :10:50.abducted from their school in the south-east. This is a fairly small
:10:51. > :10:55.demonstration with a police south-east. This is a fairly small
:10:56. > :11:01.protection around them. The message is, bring back our girls alive. The
:11:02. > :11:04.idea is they will move to the National Assembly and present a
:11:05. > :11:08.letter they're calling on politicians and the military to do
:11:09. > :11:12.more to bring back the missing girls who were abducted more than two
:11:13. > :11:17.weeks ago. Let's hear from some of the people who have come out for the
:11:18. > :11:27.demonstration despite the rain. Our message today is that we need our
:11:28. > :11:35.girls. We need them allies. Mothers are crying, children are crying. We
:11:36. > :11:44.need them. In the United States, President
:11:45. > :11:48.Obama has said a botched execution in the United States has fallen
:11:49. > :11:54.short of standards required when the death penalty is carried out. The
:11:55. > :11:58.prisoner, Clayton Lockett, had been sentenced to death after shooting a
:11:59. > :12:01.nineteen year girl and watching two accomplices bury her alive. Prison
:12:02. > :12:04.officials say that he died of a heart attack more than forty minutes
:12:05. > :12:07.after he was given his first injection. Richard Lister reports.
:12:08. > :12:09.Clayton Lockett was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old woman and
:12:10. > :12:13.watching as his friends buried her alive. Last night he suffered his
:12:14. > :12:17.own gruesome death. His was to have been the first of two executions by
:12:18. > :12:19.lethal injection on the same evening at this Oklahoma prison, but
:12:20. > :12:26.something went badly wrong. After being strapped to the gurney a
:12:27. > :12:29.doctor injected him with a sedative. At 6:33pm he was declared
:12:30. > :12:33.unconscious and injected with two more drugs to end his life but at
:12:34. > :12:42.6.36 he began writhing on the gurney and trying to speak. At 6:39pm he
:12:43. > :12:53.was still lifting his shoulders and head of the gurney, grimacing,
:12:54. > :12:56.appeared to be in distress. A prison official had been expected to
:12:57. > :13:02.confirm his execution to waiting journalists but as time passed, it
:13:03. > :13:04.became clear there was a problem. I notified the Attorney General's
:13:05. > :13:08.office of my intent stop the execution and requested a stay of 14
:13:09. > :13:15.days for the second execution scheduled for this afternoon.
:13:16. > :13:19.Minutes later Clayton Lockett died of a massive heart attack. Lethal
:13:20. > :13:27.injection is now the most common method of execution in America.
:13:28. > :13:32.Sourcing the drugs has become difficult. The European Union banned
:13:33. > :13:34.the expert from -- there exporter. American drug companies demand
:13:35. > :13:37.anonymity. Lawyers lost a legal battle with the state to reveal its
:13:38. > :13:41.drug supplier. But Clayton Lockett's slow death has put the
:13:42. > :13:43.execution of Charles Warner on hold and may trigger lawsuits about
:13:44. > :13:46.whether lethal injections are humane Joshua Marquis is a District
:13:47. > :13:50.Attorney in Astoria, Oregon with a lot of practical experience as a
:13:51. > :13:53.lawyer in this field - he's both defended men facing the death
:13:54. > :14:04.penalty and more recently sought and obtained verdicts of capital
:14:05. > :14:09.punishment. Thank you for joining us. Looking at a case like this, how
:14:10. > :14:18.can it be argued that lethal injections are humane?
:14:19. > :14:32.I would note that the drugs that were attempting to be used in
:14:33. > :14:40.Oklahoma are to drugs that I would say I have administered these drugs
:14:41. > :14:44.as part of a O V. The idea that administering drugs that are used
:14:45. > :14:49.commonly in medical procedures as humane as a ridiculous argument. It
:14:50. > :14:55.is about the testing of the cocktail of drugs and this inmate? For many
:14:56. > :15:06.years there was a particular cocktail as it is referred to. The
:15:07. > :15:11.first is a sedative, the second freezes the person's breathing, and
:15:12. > :15:18.the last stopped their heart. If you have a cat or dog that is euthanised
:15:19. > :15:24.either in America or Britain, those are the drugs that will be used. The
:15:25. > :15:29.EU has cut off the drugs all states have been forced to come up with
:15:30. > :15:32.other drugs, as you say cocktails. They are combinations but we will
:15:33. > :15:40.not see the drugs that are being mixed offer various surgeries, they
:15:41. > :15:44.would be called cocktails. They are combinations of drugs to put the
:15:45. > :15:47.patient is comfortably as possible out of consciousness. That is what
:15:48. > :15:54.we are doing in respect of the fact that this man's victim did not die
:15:55. > :15:59.slowly or comfortably. He shot gun to her to death and then buried her
:16:00. > :16:04.while she was still alive. This case has made headlines around the world,
:16:05. > :16:08.but in the United States, is there much public concern about the
:16:09. > :16:14.prospect of our death row inmates suffering in this way? What is
:16:15. > :16:19.interesting is that in the United States there are 50 states, every
:16:20. > :16:26.state makes individually. 35 states have the death penalty. Roughly 60
:16:27. > :16:39.to 85% of Americans approve of the deathknell naughty -- death penalty
:16:40. > :16:48.in some degree. Thank you very much for joining us from the state of
:16:49. > :16:55.Oregon. Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:16:56. > :16:57.The International Monetary Fund says that Russia is "experiencing
:16:58. > :17:01.recession now" because of damage caused by the Ukraine crisis and
:17:02. > :17:03.western sanctions. It's led the IMF to significantly reduce Russia's
:17:04. > :17:06.economic growth forecast for this year as capital continues to leave
:17:07. > :17:10.the country. The economy is now forecast to grow by 0.2% - much
:17:11. > :17:14.lower than the initial forecast of 1.3%.
:17:15. > :17:17.Meanwhile the acting president of Ukraine says his Government is
:17:18. > :17:20.unable to contain the latest unrest in the east of the country.
:17:21. > :17:23.Oleksander Turchynov also said Ukraine was on "full combat alert"
:17:24. > :17:25.amid fears Russian troops could invade. Pro-Russian separatists have
:17:26. > :17:28.seized control of more official buildings including in Luhansk and
:17:29. > :17:37.Horlivka. Russia denies accusations its funding and orchestrating the
:17:38. > :17:41.unrest. An explosion at a train station in
:17:42. > :17:45.Urumqi in China's restive Xinjiang region has killed three people and
:17:46. > :17:48.injured at least seventy nine. -- 79. State media said at the blast
:17:49. > :17:51.was centred around some luggage and said the attackers also used knives.
:17:52. > :17:55.It comes as President Xi Jinping ended a tour to the region during
:17:56. > :17:58.which he said stability there was vital for the whole country. There
:17:59. > :18:01.are long standing tensions in Xinjiang the area where the Uighur
:18:02. > :18:14.Muslim population complain of repression under Chinese rule - an
:18:15. > :18:17.accusation Beijing denies. Police in the northern English city
:18:18. > :18:20.of Leeds have charged a 15-year-old boy with murder over the death of
:18:21. > :18:24.his teacher. Ann Maguire's death on Monday is thought to be the first
:18:25. > :18:27.time a teacher has ever been murdered inside a British classroom.
:18:28. > :18:33.The teenager can't be named for legal reasons and is due in court on
:18:34. > :18:36.Thursday. One of Britain's best loved
:18:37. > :18:39.character actors, Bob Hoskins, has died. He was 71 and had been
:18:40. > :18:43.suffering from pneumonia. His role in the movie Mona Lisa earned him an
:18:44. > :18:46.Oscar nomination. He also starred in The Long Good Friday, Who Framed
:18:47. > :18:49.Roger Rabbit and the television drama Pennies From Heaven. Hoskins
:18:50. > :18:51.retired from acting nearly two years ago after being diagnosed with
:18:52. > :19:05.Parkinson's Disease. David Sillito looks back at his life. Outside of
:19:06. > :19:08.church? You don't go crucifying people outside of church, especially
:19:09. > :19:13.on Good Friday! What's the matter, Harold? Eric's been blown up. In the
:19:14. > :19:16.Long Good Friday, Bob Hoskins played a gangster, Harold Shand. If you
:19:17. > :19:20.want to understand screen charisma, watch this scene. He didn't even
:19:21. > :19:24.need to talk, his face could do it all. He was a natural. Of course, a
:19:25. > :19:29.little guidance helps, and on this set he had some. I spent a lot of
:19:30. > :19:35.time with villains before the film actually went on. Then most of the
:19:36. > :19:47.gang in the film were real faces, you know. And if I was doing it
:19:48. > :19:51.wrong, they'd come up and whispher, "you wouldn't do that." "What would
:19:52. > :19:55.I do?" "I don't know, but, well you wouldn't do that." So I had to do it
:19:56. > :19:59.until they agreed it was all right. It is impossible to explain, it is
:20:00. > :20:02.not the sort of thing you can put into words. Bob Hoskins's
:20:03. > :20:09.breakthrough had been the TV series Pennies From Heaven. # Yes, yes. #
:20:10. > :20:16.My baby said yes, yes. # I am glad she said yes, yes. # Instead of no,
:20:17. > :20:19.no. # His biggest television role before this had been a public
:20:20. > :20:24.information series teaching adult literacy. I'm going to feel a real
:20:25. > :20:30.mug, sitting amongst a bunch of strangers. If you cannot read or
:20:31. > :20:33.write, it is not something you want every to know about, is it? He
:20:34. > :20:37.himself was dyslexic. He had left school at 15 and in his 20s
:20:38. > :20:41.accompanied a friend to an audition. Yeah, I was in the bar at the Unity
:20:42. > :20:47.Theatre and a fella said, "you're next." "Oh, am I?" I'd a few of them
:20:48. > :20:51.and I thought, "All right, where are we going?" Action! Before he knew
:20:52. > :20:55.it, he had done reading, landed the lead and he was never out of work
:20:56. > :21:03.again. Told you I was cheap, didn't I? In Mona Lisa, he was again a
:21:04. > :21:10.villain and winning awards. His co-star was Cathy Tyson. I'd say to
:21:11. > :21:13.him, "Have you ever loved someone?" And he says "all the time", and he
:21:14. > :21:17.was really upset because my character does not love him. We did
:21:18. > :21:21.that again and he said, I think you can to do that again, cann't you?
:21:22. > :21:25.And we did. And then all this emotion came from me. That was a
:21:26. > :21:28.turning point for me and my acting career. He described himself as an
:21:29. > :21:32.educated, five feet six inches with a face that looked like a squash
:21:33. > :21:35.cabbage, but he was soon getting the big roles in Hollywood, again
:21:36. > :21:43.playing the tough guy, this time though he was tussling with a
:21:44. > :21:49.rabbit. I do. You don't. I do. You don't. Listen, when I say I do, that
:21:50. > :21:57.means I do. What do you mean nothing? I mean nothing, Denny. He
:21:58. > :22:00.appeared in more than 80 films. One notable co-star today, Michael Caine
:22:01. > :22:04.said described him as one of the nicest and best actors he had worked
:22:05. > :22:07.with. Take a picture, climb a drainpipe, find out. Ratty, why
:22:08. > :22:12.didn't you say it was you? Come inside, bring your friend. Bob
:22:13. > :22:16.Hoskins announced his retirement in 2012 after being diagnosed with
:22:17. > :22:22.Parkinson's disease. But what a career. He pretended it was luck.
:22:23. > :22:31.But from that first reading it was obvious that they had spotted the
:22:32. > :22:44.Hoskins charisma. Let's get you sorted. Bob Hoskins
:22:45. > :22:47.who died today. Ten years ago - this Thursday - Latvia became one of
:22:48. > :22:50.eight former communist countries to join the European Union.
:22:51. > :22:53.Next month, its citizens will join in the latest round of European
:22:54. > :22:56.parliament elections. The BBC's Joe Lynam takes a look at what the
:22:57. > :22:58.experience of EU membership has been like for one of its smallest
:22:59. > :23:02.members. Barely 25 years ago Riga's Hanseatic
:23:03. > :23:05.beauty beauty was hidden behind the Soviet Union's iron embrace. 15
:23:06. > :23:08.years later it willingly and joined a bigger union, the European union.
:23:09. > :23:11.So has membership left a sweet taste for Latvia? Take this family run
:23:12. > :23:14.biscuit factory. It has boomed since the EU became its main market
:23:15. > :23:20.instead of Russia, producing 10,000 biscuits a day. Ten years ago we had
:23:21. > :23:24.employed 25 people. Now we are employing 80. Our turnover has
:23:25. > :23:28.increased by 80%. Instead of having one country for export, we have 18,
:23:29. > :23:38.so we have increased our production tenfold. Tiny Latvia only has two
:23:39. > :23:42.million people and since joining has received 4.3 billion euros from the
:23:43. > :23:46.EU to spend on roads, schools and modernising homes. Over the last
:23:47. > :23:51.decade, Latvia's GDP has almost trebled and it is now the
:23:52. > :23:56.fastest-growing economy in Europe. Not everyone is happy. Yannis is an
:23:57. > :23:58.arable farmer who voted no to EU membership. And despite having
:23:59. > :24:05.received over 400,000 euros in grants, he still thinks the EU has
:24:06. > :24:08.been bad for the country. We have to accept the rules of the EU
:24:09. > :24:13.agriculture policy game and they are not the same as the ones we had in
:24:14. > :24:16.the first independence in 1980. Then we had carefully developed Latvian
:24:17. > :24:20.agricultural policy and we were one of the best at exporting
:24:21. > :24:23.agricultural products. Currently we are losing because of the
:24:24. > :24:26.agriculture policy of the European Union. When Latvia joined the
:24:27. > :24:29.European Union ten years ago, it Union. When Latvia joined the
:24:30. > :24:31.the four this country in it. Union. When Latvia joined the
:24:32. > :24:35.poorest. Ten years later it is still Union. When Latvia joined the
:24:36. > :24:38.one of the poorest, but incomes have risen by over 50%, despite a
:24:39. > :24:41.terrible recession. The challenge for Latvia is to keep the momentum
:24:42. > :24:46.going and have finally reach the European norm. The impact of the EU
:24:47. > :24:50.depends on the generation. For the older generation that grew up in the
:24:51. > :24:53.Soviet period, that is their childhood and that is what they
:24:54. > :24:57.remember. They still feel distant from what is going on in the West.
:24:58. > :25:00.But for my kids, they go there for education, some of their friends
:25:01. > :25:10.live there, some of their friends study there, that is home to them
:25:11. > :25:17.much more than anything here. To show their closeness, it is the City
:25:18. > :25:18.of Culture. Latvia have always punched above their weight in the
:25:19. > :25:41.arts. Not least this opera singer. I can hardly believe I am telling
:25:42. > :25:52.you this. Our final item is the casing of a pig. An act that has
:25:53. > :25:55.aroused debate. He kissed the animal in front of his primary school
:25:56. > :26:03.pupils to keep a promise to them. He made a promise in March to keep them
:26:04. > :26:13.from stopping letter. There is a lesson for you. - litter. A reminder
:26:14. > :26:16.of our main news: The World Health Organisation has warned that
:26:17. > :26:17.resistance to antibiotics poses a major global threat to public
:26:18. > :26:21.health. It says the world is heading towards
:26:22. > :26:24.an era when people could once again die from common infections and minor
:26:25. > :26:27.injuries because some of the key drugs no longer work. It blames the
:26:28. > :26:34.over-prescription and misuse of antibiotics for accelerating the
:26:35. > :26:39.spread of superbugs. This is a report that came after an
:26:40. > :26:44.investigation in 140 countries. Next is the weather. From me and the rest
:26:45. > :26:55.of the team that World News Today, thank you for watching.
:26:56. > :27:05.Hello once again. It looks as if there is the really is going to be
:27:06. > :27:09.one of those days, really cloudy to start off the day and some pulses of
:27:10. > :27:11.wet weather. Not only